Adeyemi Oshunrinade October 20, 2020 The Nigeria story the world is willfully blind to, may unfold as Africa’s biggest catastrophe if the leadership, fails to bring normalcy to the uprising by Nigerian youths. After 60 years of independence, majority… Read More ›
Criminal Justice
SCOTUS MINUS ONE: SCALIA’ DEPARTURE WILL CAUSE A CONFIRMATION WAR
ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE February 14, 2016 Known as one of the conservative minds of the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia died at the age of 79. A leading conservative voice of the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia, believed issues such as… Read More ›
INSANITY DEFENSE FOR DYLANN ROOF ? A LEGAL ANALYSIS
ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE June 20, 2015 Dylann Roof made it clear he did not like black people, when he unleashed hell killing nine innocent worshippers in a Charleston AME church. While it remains unclear why a person would have such hatred… Read More ›
WHAT IS “SPECIFIC INTENT?” HOLDER MOVES FOR PROOF IN ZIMMERMAN
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE July 20, 2013 The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin meant an end to the criminal prosecution of the one time neighborhood watch, at least, at the state level. Since the jury… Read More ›
ZIMMERMAN, NOT GUILTY SAYS JURY OF SIX
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE July 14, 2013 The Jury in the Zimmerman case has found the one time neighborhood watch not guilty, in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. In a unanimous decision, the Jury of six women decided George… Read More ›
INSANITY, CASE OF ERIKA MENENDEZ-THE SUBWAY PUSHER
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE Her crime, she pushed an Indian immigrant to an incoming train causing his death. Erika Menendez a 31-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with murder as a hate crime after she admitted before law enforcement that… Read More ›
CRIMINAL LAW DEFENSE OF OTHERS: Homicide in the Name of Family
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE The law that gives one the right of self-defense also confers the privilege to act in defense of others whenever it is reasonable and necessary to do so. It would be unreasonable and unwise for a man… Read More ›
SELF DEFENSE: A SETTLED PRINCIPLE OF CRIMINAL LAW
ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE No doubt we all have the reflexes of self-defense the moment we were born. It is innate and we react in self-defense when we feel the impulses or it is necessary to do so. If a fly lands… Read More ›
PUBLIC AUTHORITY: A Special Defense in Criminal Law
BY Adeyemi Oshunrinade There are certain acts which if done by order of a superior or under the protection of public authority, are not considered crimes; if a police officer shoots and kills one holding a knife to his wife’s… Read More ›
SAVANNAH DIETRICH: PLEA DEAL, When Tweeting is a Crime
BY Adeyemi Oshunrinade Her ordeal began when she got drunk at a gathering and fell asleep; 17-year-old Savannah Dietrich of Louisville Kentucky woke up to realize she had been sexually assaulted by two teenage boys she knew. Her offenders did… Read More ›